Her books, according to people who’ve read them I’ve seen talking about this, are shallow. Forcing a bunch of students to read shallow fiction AND listen to the author give a highly paid speech is horseshit. It’s college. They should be reading something challenging.

It makes sense. It really is a long grind to level an alt up to 120. The level scaling has helped, but it’s still a serious grind. If you’ve played every expansion multiple times what are you really getting out of it?

Far-right types turn on each other all the time. Not surprised it’d be some creature like Milo uploading this. If you ever study neo-Nazi circles on social media there’s an absurd amount of drama between people who fundamentally believe all the same vile things. Like most fringe ideologues they make mountains out of…

NSO are garbage. They know precisely what they’re doing. They hide behind bad-faith claims about security and fighting terrorism when in reality they only care about profit. They operate in an Israeli political environment where arms sales to abusive regimes like the Phillipines and Myanmar are protected from scrutiny…

Pretty sure paper comes in multiple colors. If no one needs to explain the issue to you, why didn’t you buy different paper? 

100% pedantic and I freely admit it, but FYI generally you shouldn’t capitalize “al-” in Arabic names/titles. It’s just a definite marker, it’s not really a separate word. Probably doesn’t come up as often in video game journalism as some other subfields of journalism so completely understandable not to know. 

Sometimes there’s local grants for houses that old, for things like insulation/weather-proofing and stuff. A friend of mine lives in a dilapidated poorly constructed house and took advantage of one two years ago, and it seems to have made a difference (we still wear coats inside but now the wood stove does heat things…

Building green spaces and creating some dense permaculture style local farming, even in urban settings, could hit two health concerns with one stone. Even with fairly low investment in time and money you could at least get some fresh food in those areas (curious whether there’d be more losses from animals or other…

I’ve been in a lull where I don’t really play for a month or two and was about to get back into it when Blizzard decided to dance for an authoritarian government. So I haven’t. 

I’m a fan of both, and I had the same thought. Both good and fun shows, but Venture Bros has me happy to get anything. 

To the idiot who just suggested my position is akin to Nazi-apologia; there is absolutely no honest comparison between saying we should consider the role captive media plays in misinforming citizens of authoritarian regimes and apologizing for modern neo-Nazis who absolutely choose their belief system and seek out…

That’s certainly important context. I could be way off the mark here, at least regarding him, though my larger point is we need to be careful immediately judging people who may have been pushed into a position where being misinformed isn’t entirely their fault.

There are plenty of people born and raised in the US, or Germany, or other states with free media, who consume mostly conspiratorial and/or heavily biased media. It’s not uncommon for people to stick to pro-government media even after moving, the habit has been built. That’s why authoritarian regimes do it. If you…

I’m a bit torn on this. On one hand, that’s a gross statement and the blind support for violent nationalism is definitely at odds with their values. The only thing that makes me pause is that he might not be very well informed. Turkey’s media is almost entirely captured by Erdogan. Independent outlets have been bought…

Not sure what the anime reference is, but it sounds like you’re talking about cadet branches? That said, I’m not sure that’s a good analogy. You see cadet branches in feudal Europe, where the second and third sons of the main ruling family tend to maintain some influence (sometimes through appanages) and they could be…

Yeah, that’s a pretty common line in authoritarian regimes. It’s not one of the worst cliches, but I’ve definitely seen “this app/group/person targeted law enforcement/officials” quite a few times.

In other similar systems, the mother would generally enter the household of a male relative. A brother, her father if he survives, or possibly an uncle. If she didn’t remarry, of course. 

I’m a descriptivist not a prescriptivist, so it doesn’t bother me, though I will say after your rant I do feel like that’s a weird word myself. I could have just said “problematic methodology” and it would have been simpler. 

It looks like they mostly went with grave goods, which I agree is a bit problematic methodologically, especially as it’s possible the elite were relatively recently arrived IE-speaking peoples and may have had different funerary practices than the locals. 

There’s some interesting stuff here, but the comparisons to Rome and Greece leave me thinking their team needed another/more historians familiar with societies closer to the ones they’re studying. Both classical societies were a far bit different than the material culture of this era, and looking at more tribal…